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Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 585 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake delivers a fresh and compelling portrait of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz On Winston Churchill's first day as prime minister, Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. Poland and Czechoslovakia had already fallen, and the Dunkirk evacuation was just two weeks away. For the next twelve months, Hitler would wage a relentless bombing campaign, killing 45,000...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon and The Lost City of Z, a mesmerizing story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth On January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. They were survivors of His Majesty's...
Author
Publisher
Reader's Digest
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
256 p. : ill. (some col.), col. map ; 30 cm.
Language
English
Description
A chronological resource on the British monarchy through the past millennium highlights its most infamous moments, from the murder of William II in 1100, to Henry VIII's marriages, to the controversies surrounding Princess Diana's death.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Traces the South Pole expedition of a decorated British special forces officer, an admirer of Ernest Shackleton's expedition and descendant of one of Shackleton's crew, who in 2015 risked his life to walk across Antarctica alone.
Author
Publisher
Broadway Paperbacks
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
x, 310 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lady Almina, the 5th Countess of Carnarvon, the real life person behind the PBS series Downton Abbey, is the focus of this book about her life in Highclere Castle, which draws on a rich store of materials from historical archives of diaries, letters, and photographs.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 258 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
An award-winning Yorkshire journalist describes her unconventional experiences with single motherhood, describing how the abandonment of her unplanned child's father compelled her adjustment to a stable and laughably real two-person family.
Author
Publisher
Harmony
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
287 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Diagnosed with autism at the age of thirty-four, one of the UK's hottest comedy stars reflects on the ways her undiagnosed autism influenced her youth, from the tree that functioned as her childhood best friend to the psychiatric facility where she ended up when no one knew what to do with her.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
x, 418 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The international pop star chronicles her trajectory from small-town girl to overnight icon as part of the Spice Girls, revealing that power can be easily taken away by those around you, whether by pressure, exhaustion, shaming, bullying or a constant feeling like you aren't enough."--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
On May 1, 1915, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool, carrying a record number of children and infants. The passengers were anxious. Germany had declared the seas around Britain to be a war zone, and for months, its U-boats had brought terror to the North Atlantic. But the Lusitania was one of the era's great transatlantic "Greyhounds" and her captain, William Thomas Turner,...
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Describes the covert intelligence operations of allied forces during World War II as experienced by wounded RAF pilot Roald Dahl, a patriot who used his charm and wits to infiltrate the upper reaches of Georgetown society and influence U.S. policy in favor of England.
17) Thunderstruck
Author
Language
English
Description
A portrait of the Edwardian era recounts two parallel stories--the case of Dr. Hawley Crippen, who murdered his wife and fled to America, and Guglielmo Marconi, the inventor of wireless communication--as the new technology is used to capture a killer.